
Edward Morrissey
Edward Morrissey has been writing about politics since 2003 in his blog, Captain's Quarters, and now writes for HotAir.com. His columns have appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Post, The New York Sun, the Washington Times, and other newspapers. Morrissey has a daily Internet talk show on politics and culture at Hot Air. Since 2004, Morrissey has had a weekend talk radio show in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area and often fills in as a guest on Salem Radio Network's nationally-syndicated shows. He lives in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota with his wife, son and daughter-in-law, and his two granddaughters. Morrissey's new book, GOING RED, will be published by Crown Forum on April 5, 2016.
Latest articles by Edward Morrissey
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 Why the Catholic Church's anti-populist crusade is doomedfeature How can Catholicism cure populism before it cures itself? By Edward Morrissey Published feature
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 Time for an intervention at the Vaticanopinion To end decades of sexual abuse and cover-ups, the faithful must oversee the Catholic Church By Edward Morrissey Published opinion
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 The Catholic Church must confess its sins. All of them.opinion This is the only path to redemption By Edward Morrissey Published opinion
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 Want to fix the Oscars? Ban speeches.opinion They're boring, they're long, they're political — who needs them? By Edward Morrissey Published opinion
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 How Twitter and Facebook are weaponizing mob mentalityThe Explainer By trying to control users, social media platforms are only doing more harm than good By Edward Morrissey Published The Explainer
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 The foolish race to declare victory in Koreaopinion It's a lot easier to see the many ways this process could fail than the few in which this effort could succeed By Edward Morrissey Published opinion
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 Why a Fox-Disney deal would only breed more Hollywood corruptionfeature What the industry desperately needs now is more accountability — not less By Edward Morrissey Published feature
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 Why the national anthem protests are failingopinion The NFL's players and owners cannot seem to fathom how or why these demonstrations are alienating millions of fans By Edward Morrissey Published opinion
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 Nothing about 'blood and soil' is AmericanThe Explainer Here's what the vile neo-Nazi slogan really means By Edward Morrissey Published The Explainer
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 The lessons of the Colin Kaepernick kerfuffleopinion What did Kaepernick truly risk, other than criticism? By Edward Morrissey Published opinion
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 Obama's new gun control action isn't just bad policy. It's symptomatic of his incurable weakness.opinion Why won't the president face political reality? By Edward Morrissey Last updated opinion
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 Je suis Garland?opinion The organizers of the Muhammad drawing contest were provocateurs. So were the editors of Charlie Hebdo. What's the difference? By Edward Morrissey Published opinion
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 Rolling Stone and the perils of confirmation biasopinion The magazine is guilty of journalistic malpractice By Edward Morrissey Published opinion
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 The real lesson of the Rolling Stone rape article fiascoopinion You can't prove a negative. And you shouldn't be put in a position where you have to. By Edward Morrissey Last updated opinion
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The hypocritical fatuity of Brian Williams' media defendersopinion The media should be applauding those trying to hold the NBC newsman accountable By Edward Morrissey Published opinion
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 The patronizing, phony morality of Super Bowl ad makersopinion Next time, how about you stop wagging your finger in America's face and just have a little fun By Edward Morrissey Published opinion
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 The Buffett Rule is a drop in the oceanfeature America faces a true financial crisis. The president has responded with a hackneyed political gimmick By Edward Morrissey Last updated feature
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 A high-speed derailment in Californiafeature Why the state's proposed new rail system is little more than a foolish boondoggle By Edward Morrissey Last updated feature
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 The folly of doubling down on electric carsfeature So-called green vehicles are expensive and tough to dispose of, and may actually increase America's dependence on foreign resources By Edward Morrissey Last updated feature
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Drill, baby, drillfeature The Arab uprisings prove once again that domestic oil production is critical to solving America's energy problems By Edward Morrissey Last updated feature
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 The real threat to democracy in Wisconsinfeature Fleeing Democrats have stolen the will of the public and their right to self-governance By Edward Morrissey Last updated feature
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 Bibi turns on the charmfeature In the fight over Israel's borders, Netanyahu takes the upper hand By Edward Morrissey Last updated feature
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 Does the GOP really want a revolution?feature In his debut column for The Week, Edward Morrissey says that to score victories, Republican leaders must pick their battles carefully By Edward Morrissey Last updated feature
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 Balanced budget amendment: A trap for fiscal conservativesfeature A law ensuring that government spending doesn't exceed revenue sure sounds good — until you consider what it would cost the GOP By Edward Morrissey Last updated feature
